Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=562236&in_page_id=1965

by dangoldin • 18 years ago

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technoguyrob3• 18 years ago

Is this confirmed?

This is the Daily Mail...

moog2• 18 years ago

Looks like a spear to me.

technoguyrob3• 18 years ago

I'm disappointed by your answer, but even more so that you have more than 1 upvote. For once, reddit provided more value to me than Hacker News:

http://reddit.com/info/6haio/comments/

rglullis• 18 years ago

I believe it is possible, specially that the article says that there were locals that used the same technique. It could very easily learn how to mimic human behaviour.

xlnt• 18 years ago

why is monkey news being posted to hacker news?

jrockway• 18 years ago

I think that the use of tools is interesting to hackers. Startups and hackers invent new tools to make life easier; this article shows another species doing the same thing.

Anyway, I found the "article" (really just a picture with a few words) interesting.

anewaccountname• 18 years ago

I call shenanigans (orangutan shenanigans nonetheless): if you look at the splash, you can tell he slapped the water and didn't actually "stab" as you would with a spear.

simianstyle• 18 years ago

someone please take this back to reddit where it belongs

gaika• 18 years ago

Some local tribes think that orangutans are smart, just pretend to be dumb so they can slack off and skip work.

moog2• 18 years ago

2001

Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear

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